Month: June 2017

The truth is that, when out with normal people, I won’t understand a few movie or pop culture references in a row, and THEN it gets awkward because THEY’RE lost with without premanufactured reference points. Oh gawd I might have to explain why I like that movie/song/whatever instead of taking it for granted that everybody…

Since getting diagnosed, I’ve wondered how much stress ASD is adding to my life. In other words, how bad is it for normal people? How bad am I cursed? Over the last week, I’ve been having intense work drama, where I’m having to document a bunch of complex stuff to show how my performance is…

The Reddit psychotherapy board is a safe space for therapists: patients are banned from participating. It can make for interesting reading, like this thread: What was your toughest client/hardest situation to be in?” The original post: I know a lot of people are dealing with imposter syndrome. Maybe it would help if some of us…

Fantastic description of modern illiteracy by Henry Giroux: Illiteracy is no longer restricted to populations immersed in poverty with little access to quality education; nor does it only suggest the lack of proficient skills enabling people to read and write with a degree of understanding and fluency. More profoundly, illiteracy is also about refusing to…

How the internet works: In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. “Kill them all. For the sake of…